With the start of the new decade, I figured it was an excellent time to have a “Kirk Keyes Retrospective,” a look back on my photography. Here are a few of my favorites taken over the last 35 years. It’s a mix of “vintage” large-format images from the 80s and 90s, with a few taken…

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Last June, I travelled with Aaron King and Brendon Porter of Photog Adventures fame to Crater Lake National Park. If you’re not familiar with Photog Adventures, it is Podcast, a YouTube channel, and Facebook Group that discusses landscape photography with a focus on shooting the Milky Way. We had spent the previous night shooting the…

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Location: Death Valley Nation Point, USA Camera: Linhof Technika IV 4×5 Lens: 240 mm Schneider G-Claron Film: Kodak TMax 100 About the Moment: This photograph was taken while on a spring break trip in college. It was a windy day and dust was flying everywhere. Much of my film from this trip was ruined by…

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Location: Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm, Woodburn, Oregon, USA Camera: Linhof Technika IV 4×5 Lens: 240 mm Schneider G-Claron Film: Fujichrome Quickloads About the Moment: The Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm is a popular destination in western Oregon during the spring time. Although the weather was not the best this day for large format photography, interesting images…

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Location: Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Camera: Linhof Technika IV 4×5 Lens: 75 mm Rodenstock Grandagon-G Film: Fujichrome Velvia Quickloads About the Moment: I try to make two photography trips in the Columbia River Gorge NSA every fall. Each time, I stop at this bridge and check it out. Some years, the color of…

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Location: Near Jasper, Alberta, Canada Camera: Linhof Technika IV 4×5 Lens: 150 mm Fujinon W Film: Fujichrome Provia / RPD II Quickloads About the Moment: The previous evening it looked like it was going to have a rather bland sunset, so Jeanne and I went to dinner instead of finding a subject for taking sunset…